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In-patient elective surgeries are being postponed, outpatient clinics closed Friday, some urgent care clinics closed Saturday and classes were canceled for Friday and Monday. All three UTMB hospitals and emergency departments have remained open, officials said. Outpatient clinics are expected to reopen Monday, and elective surgeries could resume then as well.

Other higher education instititions along and near the coast have also taken steps to guard against wind, waves, rain and flood.

Texas A&M University at Galveston closed at noon Friday. Students were being bused or were driving themselves to temporary accommodations at the College Station campus; the students were advised to bring supplies for a five-day stay, including bed linens, a laptop computer and textbooks. The College Station campus continued to stay open Saturday, with classes scheduled to begin Monday.

Texas State University has canceled classes for Monday at the San Marcos and Round Rock campuses. The university will be closed except for emergency personnel in finance and support services, the Police Department and information technology. Classes and normal business operations are scheduled to resume Tuesday.

A&M-Corpus Christi has closed and evacuated its campus and, in anticipation of flooding, employees were instructed to unplug computer equipment, lift it off the floor and cover it with plastic bags.

“At this time, we are making initial damage assessments on campus,” the university said on its website Saturday morning. “More rain is expected in the area and we continue to prepare for possible flooding. Classes remain canceled until further notice and campus will remain closed until we announce it is safe to return.”

A&M-Kingsville closed its campus at noon Thursday, although no evacuation was ordered and residence halls and the dining hall remained open.

At UT-Rio Grande Valley, student housing move-in scheduled for Friday and Saturday was postponed until Sunday. The university’s various campuses and other locations, which stretch along the Valley, were all closed for Friday and Saturday, with normal operations scheduled to resume Monday for the first day of classes.

The University of Houston, including its Katy and Sugar Land sites, will remain closed through Monday. All academic and administrative functions have been canceled for that period.

The UT Health Science Center at Houston released nonessential personnel at noon Friday and canceled all classes and students’ clinical rotations from Friday through Monday. The UT MD Anderson Cancer Center was operating normally as of Saturday afternoon, including at its Smithville science park and other satellite sites, according to the center’s websiste.

At UT-Austin, nearly three-quarters of UT students who live on campus had moved into residence halls as of Saturday morning. Those students who had yet to arrive were asked to report directly to their residence halls and not to check in at UFCU Disch-Falk Field, where the outdoor “Mooov-In” events have been canceled.

One residence hall, appropriately named Creekside, could be affected, and UT said there are contingency plans to move those students to other housing.

“For those students who are unable to get to campus in time for class because of the weather, we will work to accommodate their needs both in the residence halls and in the classroom and will provide further information as we approach Wednesday’s start of the academic year,” the university said.